Marianne Jean-Baptiste is also an accomplished musician who composed the score for Mike Leigh's 1997 film "Career Girls." The genial actress has worked primarily in TV for the past two decades ...

Marianne Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year as an explosive volcano of a woman in “Hard Truths.” She tells us what it was like to be so unhinged—and win awards for it.

In 1997, the actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British ... which has seen her nominated for a Best Actress Bafta. A second Oscar nod would only be fair. I meet Jean-Baptiste ...

as performers Cynthia Erivo ("Wicked") and Marianne Jean-Baptiste ("Hard Truths") are both closing in on nominations. Erivo's star turn as Elphaba, a role which won the Best Musical Actress trophy ...

Indeed, at times, the actress found the relentless fury ... the weight of it at times became almost unbearable.” Marianne Jean-Baptiste with Claire Rushbrook in Secrets & Lies (1996), for ...

British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said she feels like society is “going backwards in time” after Donald Trump was elected as the US president. The 57-year-old, who is nominated for ...

She’s played by the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste, whose powerhouse performance could very well win her the Best Actress Academy Award. Like his other films, including 1996’s “Secrets & Lies ...

This is FRESH AIR. In 1997, Marianne Jean-Baptiste became the first Black British actress to receive an Oscar nomination for Mike Leigh's drama, "Secrets & Lies." Now, nearly 30 years later ...

And in the role of a pathological grump who’s sick of the world and the people in it, Jean-Baptiste gives the performance of the year, which has seen her nominated for a Best Actress Bafta.

Endorphins make you happy. And happiness simply would not do when it came to Hard Truths. In Hard Truths, actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste plays Pansy, a woman living in London who suffers from a ...

British actress Marianne Jean-Baptiste has said she feels like society is “going backwards in time” after Donald Trump was elected as the US president. The 57-year-old, who is nominated for the best ...